--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> joanna wrote about interviews:
>
> > Why are they pathetic? The class system sucks.
>
> They're pathetic because they don't help
> organizations to select
> people who can effectively do the job. Sure,
> overthrow of the class
> system, but even in a socialist paradise, we'll need
> to generate some
> useful social process for allocating people to
> various types of work.
>
[WS:} I think you are overstimating the level of unique individual skills needed to do the job. The essence of modern organization is standardization and taylorization, which means that jobs are separated from individuals and their unique skills.
You need only a certain minimum qualifications to function in such a system, such as literacy and the ability to think analytically, but most people save those mentally retarded or conditioned to be stupid and inept by thier upbringing have those skillls. All they need to effectively function, is a little bit of training in job-specific systems.
So as far as the so-called technical skills are concerned , the only vetting that is truly necessary is to identify those who have been conditoned to be stupid and lazy and thus cannot learn how to acquire new skills. Save a few highly specialized positions, say physicians or airline pilots - most people can do most jobs performed by other people with relatively little training.
There are only two real issues at stake here. First is how much an organization is willing to invest in job training - many organziations want simply to externalize that cost as much as possible. Second and more importantly, intrerpesonal skills or "social intelligence" is what matters the most, since most work problems are solved collectively. People with bad social "alchemy" can really undermine that collective effort, hence the need to find out if the "chemistry" is right.
Wojtek
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